Making a complete hard drive backup.

[Terry]

Hi all,

I have been using Pro2.5 to make a backup of my photos and other important folders/files to an external hard drive but have never used it for a full backup of my entire desktop computer hard drive (Local Disk C in my system). I have recently tried using the windows 10 software File History and the older Backup Windows 7 option but neither seem to work and not being very computer savvy find the online advice somewhat difficult to follow. It seems there can be lots of different reasons for having problems and trying to find the right solution not that straight forward.

My question is can I simply use ViceVersa to Backup up (Mirror Source to Target) my entire desktop computer hard drive by having the Source set as my " C:\ " disk? Will that make a backup of the entire hard drive to my external hard drive (the Target)? If so are there any tips or advice to make sure all files are copied? My desktop computer hard drive is 1 TB of which 331Gb is used.
Thanks,
Terry.

[TGRMN Software]

Hi Terry, yes you can use ViceVersa to copy all files from the C drive to another drive, e.g. X:\backup\

Make sure you enable using VSS as there might be files that are in use:
https://www.tgrmn.com/web/kb/item33.htm

For the rest it works the same as copying just a folder, but the source would be the C drive root c:\
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[Guest]

Thanks for your reply and the link re VSS.
Terry.